Rewriting Old Books (you wish)

[Anne Lyle]

Originally Posted by AlterEgox5

Do you ever read a book and wish you could rewrite it to make it better? Granted, many of us aren't published and the original author is, but what books have you read that you believe are on the brink of greatness and just need some tweaking to get there?

I wanted to like "The Last Herald-Mage" trilogy by Mercedes Lackey, but Vanyel is too whiny and does little or no actual demonslaying in the books despite this being the thing he is famous for amongst the general population.

So, yeah - would love to re-write that one, giving the MC a backbone and adding some kick-ass demon slayage

Oh, and dropping the gang-rape incident towards the end of the final book. It seemed to me a cheap, melodramatic way to force the MC into an apotheosis. The 'big showdown" with the villain afterwards fell totally flat because of it, at least for me.